Seminars

Here you will find an archive of research seminars hosted by the Augmented Instruments Lab.

#010 – Maxime Popoff – Polyphonic: Enabling Massively Scalable, Ultra Low-Latency Audio Systems with FPGA Technology

Maxime Popoff presents his work on ultra low-latency audio systems with FPGAs

#009 – John Richards & Agnes Cameron – Critical Sound Synthesis – MORE ROAR!

John Richards (Dirty Electronics) and Agnes Cameron discuss the recent collaboration MORE ROAR!,

#008 – Alexander Hawkins – Some Questions from the Field: A Performer in Conversation with New Instruments

Alexander Hawkins converse with AIL lab members about what augmented instruments might mean in the context of his own practice as a composer-performer

#007 – Rodrigo Constanzo – Hitting Laptops with Drumsticks: Approaches to Performing with Drums and Electronics

Rodrigo Constanzo will present some of his recent work using drums and electronics covering a range of topics including audio analysis, meta-instrument design, machine learning, and absolute position tracking on a drum head

#006 – Steve Benford and Juan Pablo Martinez Avila – Creatively Embodying Musical AI

A UKRI Turing AI Fellowship, Somabotics explores how embodied, improvisational AI in musical contexts can foster more meaningful and creatively rich human-AI interactions through artistic practice.

#005 – Zeynep Bulu – Sustainable Speech: Experimental Music and Sensory Technologies for Post-Stroke Aphasia

A cross-disciplinary exploration of “sustainable speech” that merges post-stroke aphasia technologies with experimental music to rethink voice, expression, and the limits of linguistic fluency.

#004 – Alex Harker – Bespoke Musical Programming: A Field Report

A musician-programmer reflects on 20 years of building custom digital tools to support and transform musical creation, balancing technical depth with creative flow.